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Fees, Taxes and The Benson Budget

By Josh Rogers on Wednesday, March 19, 2003.

Like most New Hampshire Governors before him, Craig Benson won election on a promise to hold the line on taxes. Benson also pledged repeatedly to ?make the state live within its means.? The Governor says he?s delivered a budget that achieves those aims. But the Benson budget, and it?s cuts in funding for administrative boards also brings to light a perennial, if little understood aspect of state revenue collection ? fees.

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